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2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

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The ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award aspire to generate enthusiasm and prestige for this new mode of publication among humanistic scholars. The prizes further aim to raise public awareness of the resources freely available to anyone with an internet connection.

2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize Winners
Meet the Winners
History

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press, 2022)

Literary Studies

Hannah Frank

Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons (University of California Press, 2019)

Multimodal

Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Environmental Humanities

Camelia Dewan

Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh (University of Washington Press, 2021)

Environmental Humanities Finalists
Meet the Authors
Environmental Humanities

Peder Anker

The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Environmental Humanities

Mauro José Caraccioli

Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (University Press of Florida, 2021)

Environmental Humanities

Joanna Page

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (Open Book Publishers, 2023)

Environmental Humanities

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life (University of California Press, 2023)

History Finalists
Meet the Authors
History

Cesar D. Favila

Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain (Oxford University Press, 2023)

History

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile (Duke University Press, 2022)

History

Yan Liu

Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2021)

History

Ann E. Lucas

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions (University of California Press, 2019)

Literary Studies Finalists
Meet the Authors
Literary Studies

Jean Ma

At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators (University of California Press, 2022)

Literary Studies

Kathryn M. Rudy

Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Open Book Publishers, 2019)

Literary Studies

Sami Schalk

Black Disability Politics (Duke University Press, 2022)

Literary Studies

Jan M. Ziolkowski

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity (Open Book Publishers, 2018)

Multimodal Finalists
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Multimodal

Refqa Abu-Remaileh

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford University Press, 2023)

Multimodal

Abé Markus Nornes

Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

Multimodal

Jacob Smith

Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

Multimodal

Samhita Sunya

Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay (University of California Press, 2022)

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